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Speaker 1: Chicago Bananimals. Bananas is coming live to the Den Theater

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Speaker 1: May eighth. It was gonna be a stand up show,

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Speaker 1: but it's not because Scotti was available, so we made

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Speaker 1: it a live Bananas May eighth, seven thirty pm at

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Speaker 1: the Den Theater in Chicago's tickets on our Instagram, on

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Speaker 1: our link tree, on our website right now.

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Speaker 2: Hey you, beautiful bananamals. We wanted to give all of

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Speaker 2: our listeners an advance warning that there are a few

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Speaker 2: mentions of suicide in this episode. It's a sensitive topic

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Speaker 2: and we don't joke about it at all, but we

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Speaker 2: wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you

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Speaker 2: can make the best decision for you. Take care of

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Speaker 2: your brains, take care of your hearts, and stay cool forever.

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Speaker 1: Scotty, you got one for me today.

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Speaker 2: I hope you ready to just laugh and laugh and laught.

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Speaker 2: I will go today. I like when I get to go. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean ja hausin Fluffer sent this in all the

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Speaker 2: way from Taiwan. Wow, not bad, not bad. Reckless driver

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Speaker 2: find six thousand dollars for failing to yield for his

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Speaker 2: own children at a Crosswah.

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Speaker 1: My god, We'll strap in because We've got a fantastic episode,

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Speaker 1: a rule breaking episode of Bananas Do World.

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Speaker 2: Would you believe.

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Speaker 3: Your mindzillion pieces?

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Speaker 2: Would you.

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Speaker 3: Bad bred Bana.

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Speaker 1: Guys goals now binary pals. Welcome to Bananas. I'm Kerk

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Speaker 1: Brown older.

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Speaker 2: I am Banana Boy number two Scotti Landis. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for listening to the silliest little podcaster ever was. We

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Speaker 2: love recording it. We're glad you enjoy listening to it.

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Speaker 2: It were the feel good boys. You know that about us.

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Speaker 1: And remember April is the blood the Bananas Blood Bonanza.

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Speaker 2: All right. Also, if you're the Bananamal who started that team,

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Speaker 2: I get dms every day asking please for a photo.

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Speaker 2: If you can put a photo on the Bananamals team profile,

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Speaker 2: of Kurt and I whatever it is. But we're donating

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Speaker 2: blood on April first. Please join us for the Banana's

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Speaker 2: Blood Bonanza.

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Speaker 1: Our guest today is a comedian whose new solo show,

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Speaker 1: How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents is currently touring all

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Speaker 1: over America.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we're all extended.

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Speaker 1: At the Soho Playhouse where it is right now. And

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Speaker 1: also it's going to be in London, Sydney and Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome the wonderful Abby Goavinden.

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Speaker 3: Hey guys, it's so wonderful to be here. Thank you

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Speaker 3: so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're so happy to have you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on. I'm going to give you two

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Speaker 2: compliments right off the top. One, I went to your

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Speaker 2: personal website, always an embarrassing thing. There's barely any personal

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Speaker 2: websites in the world that aren't like, Oh, yours is great.

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Speaker 2: I got all the information I needed, all the things.

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Speaker 2: It worked. You didn't just fill it with jokes and

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I do my own website actually, so like

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Speaker 3: lovely Wendy. She's a good friend of mine from Houston,

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Speaker 3: and she changed my website and made it all pretty

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Speaker 3: So all that is me entirely So I'm going through

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Speaker 3: It means a lot, so many.

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Speaker 2: when you said, the only time you've ever seen your

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Speaker 2: But like if you said Scotty took over for your

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Speaker 1: That's how I feel. I have a friend who I

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Speaker 3: Did you guys, so did you guys have you been

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Speaker 2: I've worked in greenhouses. I worked in corporate offices for

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: Emotional grit, Oh yeah, I would go ahead. I would

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Speaker 3: Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents is the story of how I

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Speaker 2: Yes, this was in Taipei. A driver in Taiwan's Lane

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Speaker 3: a CCTV Yeah, family portrait without knowing about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the one thing. It's like, all of

438
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: this footage of us is out there and we have

439
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 1: no access to it. Like if we have access to it,

440
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: it'd be like, well, looking pretty good, just if.

441
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 3: The government was paying US royalties. Yeah, exactly.

442
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 2: There was an article last week in Vanity Fair about

443
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,399
Speaker 2: all the athlete homes that have been getting robbed, Like

444
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 2: these guys go play games and so people know they're

445
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 2: not home when oh play football, Joe Burrow, Travis Kelcey,

446
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 2: all those types. Yeah, And they said in the last paragraph,

447
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 2: the writer said, every social media post is a shopping

448
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 2: list for people that you don't know. And I was like,

449
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: that is so real and so creepy because basically saying,

450
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 2: if you show up and you have your fifty thousand

451
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: dollars Petique Philip watch on and then you're playing the

452
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 2: next Sunday in a different city, people know that watch

453
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 2: is in your house and they're going to come get in.

454
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 2: I guess there was a gang that was really really

455
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: good at breaking in and robbing all these houses and

456
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 2: getting away with it. Yeah, So what I'm saying is

457
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 2: less camera is also very good, and an undocumented life

458
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 2: is a beautiful life.

459
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 1: It's always that weird comment on Instagram where someone looks

460
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 1: into the corner of your video and sees like one

461
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: thing and then comments on it, and it's just like, oh,

462
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: it makes me want to just like shoot in a

463
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 1: blank white psych so that no one can see anything

464
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: about where I live.

465
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Speaker 2: This story reminded me a few years ago, and I

466
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: don't think I talked about this one on the pot.

467
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Speaker 2: My friend Hannah, her mom was in town and it

468
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 2: was her mom's birthday. She was visiting from Georgia. She

469
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 2: was in Los Angeles and she was like, do you

470
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Speaker 2: want to go get a drink? It's my mom's birthday.

471
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, let me go buy your mama drink.

472
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Speaker 2: This will be fun. So I'm driving over there and

473
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: she calls me and she goes, I just got hit

474
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: by a car. And I was like, are you okay?

475
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 2: She goes, yeah, I was crossing at Vermont and Franklin

476
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 2: at the crosswalk and Prius taking a left hand turn

477
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 2: hit me. I'm like, oh my gosh. She's like yeah,

478
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 2: my shoulder and my back do hurt. But the driver's

479
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 2: still here. I was like, take photos of everything, get

480
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 2: all the information. She's like, already did that. And I

481
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 2: was like, okay, I'm on my way. So I park.

482
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 2: I run over and I was like, did you call

483
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 2: the police? Yes, So we hear a siren coming. Here

484
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 2: comes an ambulance, Here comes a police car and they

485
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: drive directly by my friends sitting on the curb and

486
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Speaker 2: drive down the street one block because one block away,

487
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: another woman got hit by a car and they called

488
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Speaker 2: nine to one one first. So as that woman's getting

489
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Speaker 2: all the information, her whole family showed up that other

490
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: victim and she was also okay, but so she gets

491
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Speaker 2: put on a stretcher in the ambulance. Ambulance goes away,

492
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Speaker 2: cop follows to the hospital. So we sit there waiting

493
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Speaker 2: for the next cop and am never comes. So we

494
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 2: call three one one first, and then we call nine

495
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 2: one one again and we explained the situation and they're like, yes,

496
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: there's only one police duo that drives that area. So

497
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 2: they're at the hospital getting a you know, writing their report,

498
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 2: so you guys could wait there and crazy. So we

499
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Speaker 2: asked the driver if she wanted to join us for

500
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Speaker 2: a drink. She's like, no, I better not up driving.

501
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 2: We're like, yeah, that's fair, and then we just while.

502
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Speaker 1: We're waiting for the police to show up.

503
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we all just waited it out for two

504
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 2: hours and then just went and let the whole thing

505
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 2: go by and they exchange information. But it was like,

506
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Speaker 2: I had no idea how few cops were out there

507
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 2: because they were like, sorry, the two cops in that

508
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 2: area not going to be there.

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Speaker 3: What do we increase the police budget by eighty billion

510
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 3: dollars per year? Four?

511
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Speaker 1: Then that's it.

512
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Speaker 2: Didn't run into the closest business and just rob it

513
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Speaker 2: right away, like give, give it.

514
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Speaker 1: It's just for them to buy tanks. It's just so

515
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: that they can roll a tank out every once in

516
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Speaker 1: a while.

517
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Speaker 3: Every time there's a protest.

518
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, here comes a tank. Here comes a military

519
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: style tank.

520
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Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is we're a helmet whenever you

521
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: leave the house goes, yes, safe move, it's smart.

522
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Speaker 1: Abby. Yeah, you have a good friend of ours, Greg Wallach,

523
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 1: who's directing your show.

524
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 3: Oh, he's a good friend of yours.

525
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: Yes, we love Yeah.

526
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Speaker 3: I love Greg so much.

527
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Speaker 2: He's so great, great storyteller artist, How do you guys.

528
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: Just from storytelling and comedy. He's done a whole bunch

529
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Speaker 1: of times. I've done his show. He's given me help

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00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: with my last hour. We've talked through stuff. Yeah, oh

531
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Speaker 1: my god.

532
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Speaker 3: He is so talented. And yesterday I debuted off Broadway,

533
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 3: and then I invited a small group of friends to

534
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: get drinks with me afterwards to celebrate my off Broadway

535
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 3: debut came, thank you, thank you so much, and Greg came,

536
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 3: and then a couple of my friends texted me afterwards

537
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 3: and they were like, Greg is so much fun. You

538
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 3: should bring it out more.

539
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: And his stories are crazy, They're so fun and good.

540
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: He's got great, great stories. I mean, he's a storyteller.

541
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Speaker 1: He's like a storyteller at heart in his bones.

542
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he really is. Well, let me say so. I

543
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: had been doing this show for about a year and

544
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 3: a half director list. I was a little bit allergic

545
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 3: to the idea of hiring a director because this is

546
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 3: the story of my suicide times. So I was like,

547
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 3: what could some director tell me about the show that

548
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 3: I don't already know. I was like very sensitivetive feedback

549
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 3: on it. But for a year and a half, every

550
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 3: time I did the show, I would walk off stage

551
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 3: and I'd be like, something's missing, Like if I had

552
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 3: to grade myself, i'd give myself like a sixty percent.

553
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 3: And then when I brought Greg on, he didn't tell

554
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 3: me to change anything. He just asked me a series

555
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 3: of questions. He was like, as the audience member, As

556
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 3: an audience member, here's the questions I have, And so

557
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 3: I wrote those questions down, and I went through and

558
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 3: I answered those questions, and I incorporated the answers to

559
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 3: those questions in the show, and the next time I performed,

560
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 3: it was just like something entirely new and spectacular. And

561
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 3: I realized the beauty of a director is that he

562
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 3: has the perspective of an audience member and also the

563
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 3: perspective of a performer, because he's a stand up comedian

564
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 3: himself former stand up comedian, and he's just like so great.

565
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 3: Every piece of feedback he gives us thoughtful, he's so patient,

566
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Speaker 3: Like yesterday, before the debut, we had a two and

567
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 3: a half hour attack rehearsal and we spent a good

568
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 3: hour figuring out what my walk on would look like.

569
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Speaker 3: And my tech, yeah, my tech manager. The guy who's

570
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 3: doing tech is Kanna, who has been my administrative assistant

571
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: for a year and he's just like so supportive of

572
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 3: me and my career. So I wanted to bring him

573
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: on to the show because I know that he's interested

574
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: in pursuing more comedy production opportunities. But Kanna had no

575
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 3: tech experience, so it was a lot of all of

576
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 3: us being patient with each other and Greg. Greg was

577
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 3: like timing everything perfectly. He was like, okay, walk on

578
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 3: a like one second after the blackout. Okay, walk on

579
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 3: like half a second after the blackout. And like, internally,

580
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 3: even though my natural reaction was to be like, oh

581
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 3: my god, this guy has got to be kidding me,

582
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 3: I knew that, like I knew in my like conscious

583
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 3: brain that everything that he was saying like how to purpose.

584
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 3: And then last night when it debuted, all my friends

585
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 3: were like, oh my god, the timing of everything was perfect,

586
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 3: the setup was perfect, the direction this is perfect.

587
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, that's wonderful. I I do it is the

588
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: one thing that I like find about stand up comedy

589
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: is that it is so internal for such a external pursuit,

590
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: meaning there is no there you don't you know, you

591
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: rarely have a director, and if you get a director

592
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: for a special, they're usually just like setting up cameras.

593
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: They're like, here's the seven cameras and that's it. And

594
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: so that was what last the last the last special

595
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: I shot. My buddy joanah Ray directed it, and he

596
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: actually went out on tour with me and like gave

597
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: me notes on every show and helped me find tags

598
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: and stuff like that and helped me craft like the

599
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: and then and I love that so much. I love

600
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: having a director. I would I would love to have

601
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: them just for like ten minute sets. All right here

602
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: it is fake captain steals eight million dollar fishing vessel.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of this. This is on Actually.

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Speaker 3: Scotty, how do you steal a vessel?

606
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Speaker 1: It's very exciting, I will tell you. Scottie has been

607
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: a fan of this website for years now, National Fishermen

608
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Speaker 1: dot com and he's always sending me National Fishermen dot

609
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: com articles. This was written by Stewart.

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Speaker 2: Ooh the business really good at writing.

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Speaker 1: Uh. In a bizarre turn of events, an imposter managed

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Speaker 1: to steal an eighty foot commercial fishing vessel while the

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Speaker 1: crew was still on board. According and this is while

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Speaker 1: the crew was on board. Yes, according to the Washington

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Speaker 1: Department of Fish and Wildlife Police, the unauthor authorized skipper

616
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: took command of the Jamie Marie, an eight million dollar

617
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: ground fish vessel, and set off into the Gray's Harbor

618
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: bar before the crew caught on to his deception. Surgeon

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Speaker 1: Alexander was on patrol in Westport when he overheard a

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Speaker 1: radio call about a vehicle theft that was in progress. However,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't stolen car motorcycle. It was a full scale

622
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: vessel heist. The suspect had reportedly boarded the Jamie Marie,

623
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Speaker 1: woken up the crew and informed them that they needed

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Speaker 1: to get underway. For the newer crew members unfamiliar with

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00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: the real captain, there wasn't an immediate cause for suspicion

626
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: he was either an alternate captain or someone sent by

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00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: the real captain. It didn't take long for the impost

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00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: to raise red flags. While he quote surely acted the

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00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: part of a seasoned skipper, according to the police, his

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00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: conversation gave him away. Instead of discussing this is this

631
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: is a big red flag. Instead of discussing discussing f

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00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: fishing plans or routes, he spoke about meeting a so

633
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: called Chinese mothership.

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00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 2: Oh okay.

635
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: It made enough fuss for the crew to call their

636
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: real captain and expose the impostor. The suspect eventually turned

637
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: the vessel back to port, where he was met by

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00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: the police. Authorities found four thousand dollars in cash and

639
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: a large quantity of individually weighted and packaged marijuana in

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00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: his possession. As the investigation unfolded. Police discovered this wasn't

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00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: his first attempt. Earlier that morning, he had boarded another

642
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: large vessel, managed to start the main engines, and attempted

643
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: to convince the crew to head to see That attempt

644
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: ended with the crew running him off the boat, though

645
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: they didn't report the incident until after news of the

646
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: Jamie Marie theft. That is so crazy that you could

647
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: just walk on if you kind of like, if you

648
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: kind of know what you're doing, just walk out a

649
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: boat and drive it out of the harbor.

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Speaker 3: No, this is really useful information for me because I

651
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 3: don't know if you guys watched c Sphearracy, No, you see,

652
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 3: spirauc is about how the fishing industry is like really

653
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 3: detrimental for the planet and how it's contributing more to

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Speaker 3: global warming than me eating even And I was so

655
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Speaker 3: moved by c Spiracy that actually one of the partners,

656
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Speaker 3: one of the nonprofit partners that I'm donating a portion

657
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Speaker 3: of proceeds to from this solo show run is Human

658
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Speaker 3: Rights at Sea International, And one thing that they're really

659
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Speaker 3: concerned about is overfishing of these fishing vessels and also

660
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 3: how poorly crews are treated on board. So it's really

661
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Speaker 3: good for me to know. I'm going to go tell

662
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Speaker 3: human rights at the International. I'm gonna be like, you

663
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 3: guys can just walk on the you can just walk

664
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Speaker 3: on the ship. You can just take it over. You

665
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 3: can be like, hey, guys, I'm going to give you

666
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Speaker 3: fair pay. Everyone's only working eight hours a day. As

667
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Speaker 3: long as no one calls the police, we should be good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't row out a beard, put on a

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Speaker 2: pea coat like one of those striped shirts underneath on

670
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Speaker 2: a corn cob pipe or whatever that it just walks over,

671
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Speaker 2: hands in your pockets, like you're not going to throw

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Speaker 2: up over the railing as soon as you get on. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that sounds nice and fun.

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Speaker 1: I listened to this whole podcast about like just the

675
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Speaker 1: unlawfulness or the lawlessness rather not the unlawfulness, the lawlessness

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Speaker 1: of the open sea. And it's crazy. Once you get

677
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Speaker 1: over like fifteen miles out, you can do whatever you

678
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Speaker 1: want and no one is there, like there's no uh,

679
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Speaker 1: there's no country who can persecutor prosecute you. Yeah, it's

680
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Speaker 1: really crazy and scary.

681
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Speaker 2: It's very scary.

682
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Speaker 3: So actually, in twenty nineteen I had maybe like four hundred.

683
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Speaker 3: This was like maybe shortly before I came on hot Tub,

684
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 3: I maybe had like five hundred dollars in my banking.

685
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 3: I was like so broke trying to figure out how

686
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 3: to monetize comedy, and I was like, I deserve vacation.

687
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything to deserve vacation, but I thought,

688
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 3: so the only thing that I can afford at the time.

689
00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 3: The crew you can get like a six.

690
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Speaker 1: Hours in a massage chair at the airport, made.

691
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Speaker 3: A little bit over my five hundred dollars entirety life

692
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Speaker 3: savings is the cruise. You can go on a cruise

693
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Speaker 3: for a week or two to Mexico for like one

694
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars and it's literally about to click purchase. And

695
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Speaker 3: that week was the week that the Hassamanage the patrioarcht

696
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 3: with hassemonaj episode came out about cruise ships. It is

697
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 3: about how like so many people go missing on the

698
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 3: cruise ships and there's nothing that anybody can do because

699
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 3: it's international waters about how like the reason the cruises

700
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Speaker 3: are so cheap and yet so profitable for these companies

701
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 3: is because they fly under the flag of Panama, so

702
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Speaker 3: they don't have to pay any taxes, they overexploit like workers,

703
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 3: what have you. And that now to this day, I'm

704
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Speaker 3: like the friend that's too woke to go on cruises.

705
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 3: Like my friend group will in the group chat be like, hey, guys,

706
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Speaker 3: let's go on a cruise, and I'm like, Nope, I'm

707
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Speaker 3: not fucking with that. I have too much I have

708
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Speaker 3: to much life left in me.

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Speaker 1: It is too bad. It really is too bad. Because

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Speaker 1: we have flirted with the idea of doing a Banana's

711
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: cruise because it would just be so much fun. But

712
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: I agree with that also there like it is like

713
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Speaker 1: you're trapped on a you're trapped in a hotel that floats.

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Speaker 1: It is yeah, yeah, like a small hotel that floats.

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Speaker 1: I remember I did a comedy cruise once where I

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Speaker 1: was performing, and I think maybe by the second day

717
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Speaker 1: there was like one pool, and by the second day

718
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: that pool just had a sheen of sunscreen on it

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Speaker 1: that was just from people's bodies as they jumped in.

720
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Speaker 1: Because there was like thousands of people jumping into one

721
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Speaker 1: tiny pool and it never left. It was always there.

722
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Speaker 1: And I was like, this is just a metaphor for

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Speaker 1: this entire experience.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't it interesting? Though? With cruises, Like, at the

725
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 2: very start, the bare minimum thing about a cruise is

726
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 2: people like looking at the ocean so much, yes, that

727
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Speaker 2: they're willing to build a big boat because everything else

728
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Speaker 2: about it is just eating crap and water slides right like.

729
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Speaker 2: But the main reason that exists is somebody was like,

730
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Speaker 2: I bet people want to look at the ocean a lot,

731
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Speaker 2: and then they just built a business with that as

732
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Speaker 2: the foundation. So the foundation's beautiful. Isn't it nice to

733
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Speaker 2: look at the open sea? And then they were like, now,

734
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Speaker 2: how do we ruin this for four thousand people? And

735
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Speaker 2: every once while somebody falls over the side and they

736
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Speaker 2: just keep going. You want to tea? You were saying, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you want to do some thumbs ups? Yeah? Okay, Do

738
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Speaker 2: I want to do another driving one? No. Aaron McNulty

739
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: sent this in Walgreens says it turns out that locking

740
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 2: everything up is bad for business. No shit, Yeah, all right,

741
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: give thumbs ups abby. These are our guests are I mean,

742
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: our listeners are sending us things that they're proud of

743
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Speaker 2: themselves or other people for accomplishment. Angel leeque oh first,

744
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 2: we got a thumb up, our buddy, Chris Jacobs. When

745
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: Kurt and I do our live shows, we have an

746
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: intro song that is incredible, and Chris Jacobs is a

747
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 2: banannimal who did it for free. And every year we

748
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 2: add a new piece of a new song, usually a

749
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Speaker 2: pretty bad song, and Chris sent us the twenty twenty

750
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Speaker 2: five version does and Phoenix heard it first. It is

751
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 2: so good, So thumbs up to you, Chris Jacobs. Will

752
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 2: we now again next year?

753
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: We now have an intro song that is three minutes.

754
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 3: Long at the beginning of every podcast.

755
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, a live podcast.

756
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Speaker 3: That's so fun. When are you guys coming to New York?

757
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Speaker 2: Probably this year some point. We've done the Bell House

758
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: four times. Yeah, so I'll be there in July. I'll

759
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 2: be there in July.

760
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh in July.

761
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, excellent.

762
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Speaker 2: Angelique is asking for a thumbs up from the Banana Boys.

763
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 2: She eat cancer that cow.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thumb thumbs.

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Speaker 2: Up to you, Angelique, thumbs up please auto stem trans plants,

766
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Speaker 2: which means they use her own stem cells to rescue

767
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: her own immune system.

768
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Speaker 1: Nice.

769
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Speaker 2: Now, during that time, she was isolated from her family.

770
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Speaker 2: Her kids are friends, and so while she was sick

771
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: last year, she was looking out the window at her

772
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 2: hospital that she was in in Florida, she saw lots

773
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Speaker 2: of birds, so she created a coloring book called These

774
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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Burbs b I rbs y the meme. You

775
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: can buy that coloring book on Amazon. So it is

776
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 2: thank you, Angelique. Go on if you want a new

777
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 2: coloring book, These Tampa Bay Urbs.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

779
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Speaker 2: Thumbs up to you, Jeliq, We're so glad you're healthy.

780
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: Right now, Harvey wants to give a big thumbs up

781
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: to his friends Saraha and say hey for being great friends,

782
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: brilliant doctors and officers, but also for giving Harvey a

783
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 2: ride recently when his car broke down in the ring.

784
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 2: Are lovely and supportive friends comes up, Saraha. We love

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Speaker 2: to hear.

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Speaker 3: How many submissions do you guys get per week for

787
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Speaker 3: the thumbs up?

788
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 2: About sixty?

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Speaker 1: Wow, we're about Scotty is very good at keeping a

790
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: record of them, and then we slowly get through them.

791
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: It's from like November or December twenty twenty four. We're coming.

792
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 2: We're doing our best. No birthdays, no anniversaries, that's our

793
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 2: own new role. Yeah, Emily and Elizabeth needs more names

794
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: in her name. Emily and Elizabeth is thumbing herself up

795
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: for surviving one of the worst years of her life

796
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 2: and in the last two days of twenty twenty four,

797
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 2: she got in an accident and totaled her brand new car.

798
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Speaker 2: But she also found out that she is at the

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Speaker 2: top of her team at work locally and then top

800
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Speaker 2: one hundred nationally, and she's determined to make twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five her bitch. So there you go, Yah Coombs up

802
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 2: to you, and last but not east, Christopher wants to

803
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 2: thumb up his bandmates Evan Miles, Josh Bontineau, Bonitou, the

804
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 2: only one that gets the full name Bonitau, Sam and

805
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 2: himself for making music together for two years. Honestly, that

806
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: is so impressive. Like any band setch team, book club

807
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: together for two years? Not easy. The band is called

808
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 2: Mundane Problems. They create a space for people to talk

809
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 2: about little inconveniences in their life that hopefully make big

810
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: problems more manageable. Right beautiful. So if you want to

811
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Speaker 2: check out the band, their instagram is Mundane Problems band

812
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: on Instagram. There you go, there, get get right on him.

813
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 2: I love them to band name Mundane Problems.

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Speaker 1: And of course we are here with the wonderful and

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00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: fantastic Abbi Govinden. You can go see her show How

816
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents at the Soho Playhouse, uh

817
00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: and also all over the American country and interrationally as well.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot of tour day's coming up. That's

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Speaker 1: very exciting.

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Speaker 3: I'm super excited. I never Oh, I was just gonna say,

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Speaker 3: I refuse to buy I refuse to buy a ticket.

822
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 3: I'm an avid traveler. I visit like three or four

823
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 3: new countries per year. I refuse to pay for a

824
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 3: ticket for English speaking countries. My thing is like, I

825
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 3: want to be hired to go there to do stand

826
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Speaker 3: up comedy. So for that reason, on principle, since I

827
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Speaker 3: started stand up comedy seven years ago and started doing

828
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Speaker 3: it full time three years ago, I've never visited Australia,

829
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Speaker 3: even though it's been like on my to do list.

830
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Speaker 3: And then finally this year I got booked for the

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Speaker 3: Sydney Comedy Festival and I booked a pretty well known

832
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 3: comedy club in Melbourne, and so I'm so excited for Melbourne,

833
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 3: just like literally like rattling with excitement. Also another thing

834
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Speaker 3: I'm excited about is I'm writing the second hour. This

835
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Speaker 3: first hour is almost three hours or three years old,

836
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Speaker 3: and so many comedians have like told me, you know,

837
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 3: the first hour is the one that ideally gets you famous.

838
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 3: So it's the one that'll take the longest, that you

839
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 3: have to stick by the longest, make sure that you

840
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 3: stand by the material, that you're okay with doing it

841
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 3: a little bit longer than an hour, should you know,

842
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 3: be played in your career and otherwise. And so this

843
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 3: one is a best turned three years old this July,

844
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 3: and it was a story that felt very pertinent to tell.

845
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 3: Three years ago, I was like fresh out of the

846
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 3: hospital and I wanted to share my story. But now I

847
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 3: like feel myself ready to tell a different story. And

848
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Speaker 3: so I'm writing the second hour, and I wanted to

849
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Speaker 3: talk about like my relationship with getting older and like

850
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Speaker 3: what it's like, you know, like you.

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Speaker 1: Mean just being young? Do you mean your relationship with

852
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: just being a.

853
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 2: Very stressing in your mid twenties.

854
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Speaker 3: I'm so broke. I'm like looking at you, guys, You're

855
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 3: you're the place that you are recording the podcast from

856
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 3: looks nice, okay, And you know, if yeah, yeah, if

857
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,959
Speaker 3: you had to ask me what my thumbs up would

858
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Speaker 3: be it's the fact that you told me that you

859
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 3: were my age when you booked your first gig and

860
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 3: that you've been working in TV ever since, because like

861
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 3: sometimes the scrappiness of everything really gets to me, Like

862
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 3: I'm like, am I destined to be broke forever? Am

863
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,800
Speaker 3: I destined to always break even? Or always operate at a loss?

864
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Speaker 3: So the idea of like get you know, the study

865
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Speaker 3: upward trajectory just like really exciting.

866
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're off Broadway already, You're off Broadway already. That's

867
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Speaker 1: a huge thing. Congratu, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what are your guys' thumbs up?

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Speaker 2: Mm? Oh what are we thinking?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna thumbs up Scottie. I'm gonna thumbs up Scotty

871
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Speaker 1: for managing the thumbs up so incredibly well. It is

872
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: something that I true physically could not do. I know myself,

873
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: and it is not something I could do. And I'm

874
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Speaker 1: so happy that you handle it. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thumbs are so welcome. The joy is mine. I just

876
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 2: like that so many people in a time, in an

877
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 2: uncaring universe where everybody seems to be a upset, we

878
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 2: have people every day be like I want to say

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Speaker 2: thank you to somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really nice. It is really nice.

881
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 2: And I'm want to thumbs up Kurt for conceiving the

882
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 2: idea of doing a podcast together, because I never I'm

883
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 2: a writer. I never would have done a podcast ever

884
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 2: if he hadn't asked me. And it's turned out to

885
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 2: be five years of us having an absolute ball every week.

886
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 2: We've never missed a week and five years. Yeah. Wow,

887
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 2: five episodes a month for five years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you were talking about how it's really impressive

889
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: if people can keep a sketch team or a book

890
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 3: club or like a band together for two years. I've

891
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 3: known so many friends who started podcasts together and then

892
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 3: one day episodes just stopped coming, and then it turns

893
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 3: out that they had like a falling out, or there

894
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 3: was a miscommunication or like you know. And so the

895
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 3: fact that you guys have been able to make this

896
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 3: happen for five years and you have such a like, dedicated,

897
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 3: loving fan base. I was reading the reviews and I

898
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 3: saw how much.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they so great animals.

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Speaker 2: People, You got it, buddy, also been animals. Just keep

901
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: an eye out for Abby because of how to embarrass

902
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: you immigrant parents is probably gonna be in a city

903
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 2: near you at some point, and.

904
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Speaker 1: Then it'll probably be a Netflix special in a year

905
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: and a half. So see it now.

906
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you need anybody to pretend to like be

907
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 2: a plant in the audience, like, I'm really good at

908
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 2: pretending to be asleep. I can lay face down really still.

909
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: He's good at eating a meatball sandwich.

910
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really good at eating. Like if you need

911
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 2: a cutaway to just some like white guy eating boy,

912
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 2: do I have you.

913
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 3: Cot perfect, I'll put you in.

914
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 2: I'm good. You don't even have to pay me. I'll

915
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 2: just show up. Spell my name wrong in the credits,

916
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 2: like I am easy to work with. Aaron McNaughty sent

917
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 2: this in thanks all the animals that send in wonderful stories.

918
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Speaker 2: This was in CBS News, written by the best in

919
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Speaker 2: the retail business, Megan Serrula. That's a nice last name.

920
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 2: Walgreen says it turns out locking up their stuff is

921
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 2: bad for business. Of course Walgreens, I know. Of course,

922
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 2: Walgreen's finally figured out what most people already knew. When

923
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 2: you lock up all the products, people will buy fewer things. CEO,

924
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 2: Tim Wentworth, I mean, of course Wentworth get out of here.

925
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 3: Of course, that's.

926
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course acknowledge that this reality. In the first

927
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 2: quarter earnings call that he said the company's decision to

928
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 2: lock up products after reporting a fifty two percent increase

929
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Speaker 2: in stole An inventory has backfired horribly. When you lock

930
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 2: things up, for example, you don't sell as many of them.

931
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 2: We've kind of proven that pretty conclusively, said, I mean,

932
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Speaker 2: you sit.

933
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Speaker 1: There, You sit there and press the button and then

934
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Speaker 1: just wait for like five full minutes for someone to

935
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Speaker 1: walk over. And sometimes people just don't even come if

936
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: they're busy, nobody comes over, So you just sell the

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Speaker 1: air in front of a locked thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, like yeah, Like when I'm in the store,

939
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Speaker 3: I'm the ease of just getting something like for example,

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00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 3: what I'm I see like a vitamin C serrum and

941
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 3: they're known to be very expensive, but I'm like, okay,

942
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 3: I need this, Like I'll just grab it. But when

943
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 3: I go to Walgreens and I'm out of vitamin C

944
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Speaker 3: serum and I have to buy some more, I'll like

945
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Speaker 3: press the button and in the three minutes that it

946
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Speaker 3: takes the lady to come and open it, I'm doing

947
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 3: mental calculations. I'm like how much, Oh my God, Like

948
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 3: eggs cost seven dollars. Should I really be spending like

949
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Speaker 3: twenty nine dollars on a vitamin C sreum? Like, it's fine,

950
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Speaker 3: I can I can live without it in my skincare

951
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 3: routine for a couple of months. And then by the

952
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 3: time she gets there, I'm just like, sorry, never mind,

953
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go home, you know, Like I'm just same.

954
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 2: Proves this point though, like the more time you have

955
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 2: to consider the purchase, the less like you are to

956
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 2: buy something that exactly SA and.

957
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 3: He's a CEO, I'm like, pay me your salary. I

958
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 3: could have told you that five years ago.

959
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 2: Have either of you ever put something down and left

960
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 2: a store when it's taken too long? Like, have you

961
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 2: ever been waiting.

962
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Speaker 1: All the time?

963
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, all the time.

964
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Speaker 1: I just like, especially when it's like it should be

965
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: very simple and easy, and then there's some like absurd

966
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Speaker 1: reason why it's not happening. I leave all the time,

967
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Speaker 1: and then I'll drive out of my way, go to

968
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Speaker 1: another place me too, and then just do the whole

969
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,919
Speaker 1: thing again, and and then I'm cursing myself for having left.

970
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: It would have been a lot shorter just to wait

971
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Speaker 1: the five minutes, But but.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have done it many times. Abby. Have you

973
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 2: ever done that where you're like waiting in line with

974
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: something it just takes so long that you just go

975
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 2: nope and put it on the shelf and leave.

976
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't believe in some cost fallacy. I'm like,

977
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 3: every minute is a minute. Say it was like, I

978
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,919
Speaker 3: can if I'm waiting for an hour and a half

979
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Speaker 3: and then someone tells me I have to wait another

980
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 3: hour to get something, I'll be like, no, I'm not

981
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 3: doing that, like I've already made an hour and a half.

982
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.

983
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 3: Some cost fallacies for chumps.

984
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 2: It's also I just had no idea that eggs were

985
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 2: such a big deal. I didn't know how many people

986
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: were eating eggs. I was like, oh, all right, I

987
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 2: something I never thought about.

988
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm vegetarian, so it's my sole source of protein.

989
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 3: And yeah, now I go to the grocery store, I

990
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Speaker 3: get like nine things. I do live in Manhattan, but

991
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 3: I get like nine things. It's like fifty dollars and

992
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 3: I have to do like a cost benefit analysis.

993
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I buy egg whites and a carton four

994
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Speaker 2: ninety nine. It's a piece of cake and delicious, at Last.

995
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: Forever, and you can make a drink out of it.

996
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 2: Sometimes when I'm waiting in line for other things, I'm

997
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 2: just chugging egg whites. You know.

998
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: I recently had like a non alcoholic mocktail, but it

999
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: had egg white in it. And you put egg white

1000
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: in one of those things and you're like, well, well, wow,

1001
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: I'm having something a little special.

1002
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 3: High protein. Yeah exactly.

1003
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'll wrap this one up. CEO Tim Worworth

1004
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 2: said that the company is working with the head of

1005
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: asset Protection to develop creative solutions to combat.

1006
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: Like maybe unlocking the items that you need to buy.

1007
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 2: Yes, he says, quote, I don't have any magnet, anything

1008
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 2: magnificent to share with you today. It's a hand to

1009
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 2: hand combat still. Unfortunately. Okay, so this is going to

1010
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 2: end bad for more Green shoppers. Walgreens has been struggling financially,

1011
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 2: reporting operating losses of two hundred and forty five million

1012
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 2: dollars for the quarter, compared to only thirty nine the

1013
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 2: same quarter last year. The chain playing to close hundreds

1014
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 2: of underperforming stores. Maybe there's too many, maybe there's too

1015
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 2: many pharmacies.

1016
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, gang recession indicator. If they lost

1017
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 3: thirty nine billion last quarter, and now it's one hundred

1018
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 3: and forty billion or million, million, million to a million.

1019
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was two hundred and forty five million

1020
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 2: for the quarter, only thirty nine the year before for

1021
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: the same Wow.

1022
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 3: More people are stealing because everything's so expensive and everyone's

1023
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 3: making last money. Yeah, wild Yeah.

1024
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 2: I do enjoy going in and just sticking my arm

1025
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 2: in one of those blood pressure machines. I liked it

1026
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 2: when I was six years old. I like it six.

1027
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:03,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really enjoyable. Get to get real still and

1028
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: be very quiet and silent as a little mouse, and

1029
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: then get get a little seat.

1030
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 2: You don't always get to sit when you're shopping. When

1031
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 2: was the last time you just got to sit down

1032
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 2: when your shopping and take a minute to yourself? Abby

1033
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 2: plug away? Where can people find you besides your excellent website?

1034
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 3: I uh, I'm on Instagram at Abbi Govinden. I'm on Twitter,

1035
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 3: although I use it lest these days at aby, and

1036
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 3: I'm on YouTube. Yeah, I talk about it in the show.

1037
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 3: Like I was most known for Twitter, and then after

1038
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 3: I was hospitalized, I took a step back from over

1039
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 3: sharing on Twitter because I wanted to focus on developing

1040
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 3: stand up comedy. And then I like, after a show,

1041
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 3: I was like at a pizza parlor in the Lower

1042
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 3: East Side and an Indian girl walked in. She was

1043
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 3: like blackout drunk. She was like, oh my god, are

1044
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 3: you Abbi govind And I was like, yeah, I am

1045
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 3: Abi Govinden. And I was hoping she would say something

1046
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 3: like I'm a big fan. Keep doing what you're doing,

1047
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 3: but she was like, damn, bitch, you fell off big time.

1048
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 3: I'm like, I never see you online anymore.

1049
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 2: And I was like, what a friendly person. And then.

1050
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 3: I think I think she was more drunk than she realized,

1051
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 3: Like she said those words and then she seemed shocked

1052
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 3: that they didn't stay in her head, you know. So

1053
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 3: I'm like where she was right, Like a lot of

1054
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 3: people say that to me these days. They'll be like, yeah,

1055
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 3: I haven't seen you on Twitter in like years, and

1056
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, you know, I'm like actually doing

1057
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 3: the stand up thing now. I decided I wanted to

1058
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 3: put my money where my mouth is. But I mean,

1059
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for my Twitter followers obviously, but yeah,

1060
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 3: I can be found on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and the

1061
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 3: Soho Playhouse show is likely getting getting an extension in

1062
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 3: New York City, and then I'll be touring with both

1063
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,839
Speaker 3: The Current Hour and The New Hour later this year

1064
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 3: in different cities, so.

1065
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 2: I'd love to see it. When it's in La I'll

1066
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 2: be there. I'll be laying face down on the floor

1067
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 2: until you say, get out of here a sandwich.

1068
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 3: And you'll be the sandwich guy, the vibes guy.

1069
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for coming on, Bananas.

1070
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. This was so fun.

1071
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Bananas, Bananas, ooh a sweet one. Bananas is

1072
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 2: an exactly right media production. Our producer and engineer is

1073
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 2: Katie Levine. The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and

1074
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 2: performed by Kahan.

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00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

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00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 2: And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and

1077
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 2: Georgia Hartstart

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00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.